Stansted Airport Car Park, Essex : Carbonised Plant Remains from Late Bronze Age And Early and Middle Iron Age Contexts
Author(s): P Murphy
This E/MIA enclosure, (with one Late Bronze Age pit) was one of a series of later prehistoric and Roman settlements excavated in advance of the construction of the new Stansted terminal. Samples produced low densities of cereal remains (T. spelta, T. cf. dicoccum, Hordeum sp), sparse weed seeds and some rosaceous fruits and hazel nutshells. In common with other prehistoric settlements on the Boulder Clay of this area there is no evidence for large-scale crop processing. The material present could indicate small-scale domestic processing of batches of cereals obtained by exchange with sites on lighter soils. Not until the Roman period at Stansted is there evidence implying large-scale arable farming on the Boulder Clay.
- Report Number:
- 60/1992
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 3
- Keywords:
- Grain, Carbonised Plant Remains Seed
